Specialized networks to aid agencies with high needs adults.The Ontario government plans to create four new Community Networks of Specialized Care, Minister of Community and Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales Sandra Pupatello Sandra Pupatello (born October 6, 1962) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, and is currently the Minister of Economic Development and Trade and Minister Responsible for announced. The purpose is to strengthen supports for adults with a developmental disability developmental disability n. A cognitive, emotional, or physical impairment, especially one related to abnormal sensory or motor development, that appears in infancy or childhood and involves a failure or delay in progressing through the normal . Community Networks of Specialized Care are teams of professionals such as behaviour therapists, social workers, nurses and psychologists who will diagnose and treat adults with a developmental disability. The teams will work with community agencies, hospitals, police and mental health units throughout their region--to provide a full range of community-based specialized services to care for individuals with high needs. The agencies that will lead the four networks are: * In southern Ontario, Bethesda and Regional Support Associates; * In central Ontario Central Ontario is the portion of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies between Georgian Bay and the eastern end of Lake Ontario. The population of the region was 959,266 in 2001; however, this number does not include large numbers of seasonal residents, which at peak , Surrey Place Centre (Toronto), Community Living Huronia (Pineview site) and Community Mental Health Clinic (Guelph); * In eastern Ontario, Ongwanada and Prescott-Russell Services for Children and Adults; * In northern Ontario, Algonquin Child and Family Services Child and family services are nonprofit organizations designed to better the well being of individuals who come from unfortunate situations, environmental or biological. . The network leads will work with community agencies and mental health service providers to coordinate access to specialized services, improve the way services are delivered and promote professional development for service providers through improved research-sharing and training. |
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